Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Alice Windsor Kimball scrapbook
- Dates:
- 1900-1909
- Creators:
- Kimball, Alice Windsor.
- Abstract:
- The scrapbook documents her student days at Stanford and includes programs, clippings, invitations, notes and letters, photographs, ticket stubs, postcards, pen and ink drawings, music manuscripts, and other memorabilia. The photographs are of dorm rooms, campus buildings, Mrs. Dunn's cat, other students, the student production of "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," staff for the women's DAILY PALO ALTO, fraternity and sorority houses, and the booths in the Quad arcades created for the Promenade Concert during the 1904 commencement week. Collection also includes the typescript text of Kimball's "Everyfreshman," a play performed at the Delta Gamma house in ca. 1903.
- Extent:
- 1.5 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
-
Alice Windsor Kimball Scrapbook (SC0681). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The scrapbook documents her student days at Stanford and includes programs, clippings, invitations, notes and letters, photographs, ticket stubs, postcards, pen and ink drawings, music manuscripts, and other memorabilia. The photographs are of dorm rooms, campus buildings, Mrs. Dunn's cat, other students, the student production of "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," staff for the women's DAILY PALO ALTO, fraternity and sorority houses, and the booths in the Quad arcades created for the Promenade Concert during the 1904 commencement week. Collection also includes the typescript text of Kimball's "Everyfreshman," a play performed at the Delta Gamma house in ca. 1903.
- Biographical / historical:
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Alice W. Kimball earned her A.B. in English at Stanford in 1904; as a student she was active in the English Club, wrote for the women's editions of THE CHAPARRAL and the DAILY PALO ALTO, was associate editor of the student yearbook during her junior year, and wrote the prize football song during her senior year. She died on April 10, 1928.
- Physical location:
- Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more information on paging collections, see the department's website: http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-01-22 15:02:43 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
- Terms of access:
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While University Archives is the owner of the physical and/or digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
- Preferred citation:
-
Alice Windsor Kimball Scrapbook (SC0681). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Stanford University Archives, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6064, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022